Happy New Year from Culter School

Peterculter Sports Centre is hoping to start up an adult badminton session on Sunday evenings from 9.00 pm – 10.00 pm.  If you are interested, please contact the Sports Centre on 01224 732069 for more information.

Ross Harman P7P has discovered a website that donates rice to poor contries by simply answering questions. For each question you answer corectly you donate 20 grains of rice. You can choose different subjects such as art, chemistry, english, geography, maths and foreign languages.  Ross showed me the site and in 10 minutes I had donated 7000 grains of rice.

by Alasdair Lowe P7P

Hi Ross here,  WARNING – this site is highly addictive. Log on to www.freerice.com  where you answer questions with four options . There are different difficulty levels from 1-60 . If you answer a  question right you mave up a level, get it wrong you move down a level.  Please give it a try and help fight hunger .

by Ross Harman P7P

As part of National Anti-bullying Week there is a competition open to all 9 – 16 year olds.  Pupils can be as creative as they wish.  They could:

• Design a poster
• Design a blog
• Write a play and perform it/record it
• Write a rap/song, add music and record it
• Paint
• Write a poem

The possibilities are endless.  The closing date for the competition is October 17th so all entries need to be in to Ms Roberts by October 10th ready to send away.

Some links to help you are:

www.respectme.org.uk

www.childline.org.uk

www.bullying.co.uk

www.onescotland.com

GOOD LUCK!

Bagpipes

As part of the 2008 Aberdeen Arts Carnival, Pipe Major Ian Dallas of 2008 Scottish and British Bucksburn & District Novice Juvenile Pipe Band will be holding a week long workshop for Chanter and Great Highland Bagpipes.  this workshop is aimed at 8 -14 year olds, with no prior experience necessary – a great chance for budding musicians to try out our Scottish National Instument, Bagpipes.  Tutor for Aberdeen City Schools, Ian has a wealth of experience, dealing with Pipers from a young age.  Classes will be held from Monday 4th – Friday 8th August from 2.00 – 4.00 pm.

Drumming

Local Drumming Tutor and Lead Drummer of Grampian Police Pipe Band, Nick Gibson, will be holding a week long workshop at Aberdeen Arts Centre.  Young drummers (8-14years) will be shown how the basic rudiments of drumming are built into many different forms of drumming from traditional Pipe Band through to Orchestra to Rock and Jazz.

Taking place on Monday 4th-Friday 8th August, from 10am – 12pm, this is a sure fire way to keep the kids occupied through the holidays. 

All workshops will take place within Aberdeen Arts Centre, just off the city’s King Street.  For further information about the many classes offered during the weeks long Aberdeen Arts Centre, log onto the Arts Centre Website at www.aberdeenartscentre.org.uk or call 01224 635208. 

 Spaces are running our fast so book in advance!

Mrs Chalmers, Mrs Strachan and P3S/C have been busy creating their own blog.  You can find it at www.culterschoolaberdeenchalmers.edublogs.org or by clicking on the ‘Class Blogs’ Link.

The GridClub is a learning website for anyone aged 5 to 12.  It has over 500 activities closely linked to the Curriculum and is designed to be highly motivating and rewarding.  The school once made excellent use of GridClub, but we are unable to subscribe at present due to costs involved per pupil.  However, they are offering parents the chance to subscribe at home to help support their children’s school work. If you would like a free trial or subscription go to www.gridclub.com/myschool and fill in the required details.  If you do subscribe, please fill in the school postcode, which is AB14 0RX in the ‘SPECIAL CODE’ box and they will send us 25% of your subscription as part of their fundraising scheme.    GridClub is fun, safe and rewarding so it is worth setting up a free trial to find out more.

As the end of term approaches and the P7’s prepare for their move up to Cults, we would like to make a short film to present to them, which they can look back on in years to come.  To help make this film, we need a few ‘props’.  We are in the early planning stages so at the moment we need 2 Sumo Wrestler suits, or fake male chests, a belly dancing costume and a large stuffed cuddly dog.  Not sure if you can guess from this what the theme of our film is, but all will become apparent.  If you have any of these items and you don’t mind lending them for a few days, please e-mail me at b.polson@culter.aberdeen.sch.uk  

We will probably need more items as we progress so I will no doubt hassle you all at a later date. 

Thanks for your help.

Please accept my apologies as I stated wrong time and venue for the Bingo night.  It should have read

Thursday 12th June @ 7.00 pm in the G.P. Room 

Don’t forget to raid your cupboards for groceries or roll up your sleeves and do a bit of baking.  It will be much appreciated by the Fundraising Team and also those attending Bingo.

 Miriam P5W on reading -

“Mrs Forbes, do you still read for pleasure?”

“Yes, of course,” Mrs Forbes replied.

“My mum and dad don’t, they only read for information!”

I think Miriam should get her own column in this blog!